South KoreaManufacturing2023Samsung Electronics
Employee use of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools
Samsung bars staff from generative AI tools in May 2023 after an engineer uploaded internal source code to ChatGPT
Problem
An engineer uploaded sensitive internal source code to ChatGPT in April 2023, according to Bloomberg. Samsung worried that data typed into outside chatbots sits on servers it cannot reach or delete.
Approach
A company memo barred employees from generative AI tools. The leak's severity was not disclosed.
Results
No figures published
Takeaway
Samsung restricted generative AI use after internal source code was uploaded to ChatGPT.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- IT and R&DInternal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Press reporting
Sources
Source summaries
Forbes Australia relays Bloomberg's report that Samsung told staff to stop using generative AI after code was uploaded to ChatGPT. It reports data-storage concerns and similar limits at Amazon and JPMorgan Chase.
Full details are in the original sources.
